Staff Database Reliability Engineer

Drata•San Francisco, CA

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE) , you'll be the technical authority and strategic leader for all things related to Drata's database architecture. You'll own the long-term vision for our data infrastructure, guiding engineering teams and driving significant performance and scalability improvements. Your expertise will be key to shaping our architecture as we grow, ensuring our systems are not just reliable, but exceptionally performant and future-proof. You will be a hands-on evangelist for best practices, combining deep-level query optimizations with high-level architectural leadership to truly elevate how we use our data.

Requirements

Experience: 15+ years of experience with large scale MySQL systems, with a strong emphasis on performance tuning and a deep understanding of its internal architecture.
Infrastructure: Extensive hands-on experience with AWS Aurora administration and proven expertise in complex performance tuning, backup, and recovery strategies.
Mentoring: Demonstrated experience guiding and influencing multiple engineering teams on database best practices and architectural decisions.
SQL: Exceptional expertise in writing, analyzing, and optimizing complex SQL queries and a deep knowledge of relational database design concepts.
Programming: Proven experience working with Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) frameworks (bonus if you have experience with TypeScript and TypeORM).
Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to dive deep into a problem and emerge with a clear solution.
Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex technical issues to a diverse audience. You are a collaborator and a natural leader.

Nice To Haves

Experience with AWS Elasticache (Redis), AWS DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

Lead Strategic Initiatives: Drive the long-term strategy for scaling, resiliency, and performance of our AWS Aurora clusters and replication environments. You'll be the primary architect for our evolving data stack.
Serve as a Technical Expert & Evangelist: Act as the lead consultant for engineering teams, providing deep technical guidance on data modeling, query optimization, and architectural patterns. You will proactively evangelize best practices for schema design, efficient SQL queries, and index usage across the entire organization, helping to raise the bar for database knowledge company-wide.
Deep Dive into Performance: Proactively identify and resolve complex performance bottlenecks. You'll use advanced observability tools to analyze and tune difficult queries, data migrations and pinpointing issues before they impact our users.
Evangelize Architectural Vision: Lead the evaluation, prototyping, and eventual adoption of new database technologies and architectural approaches to meet our growing business needs.
Own Observability: Take full ownership of our database observability, defining and implementing key metrics and dashboards to ensure we have a comprehensive, real-time view of database health and performance.

Benefits

Shared Success : We provide stock equity to ensure that as the company grows, you share directly in that success. Equity gives every employee a sense of ownership and the opportunity to celebrate our wins together—because your contributions don’t just support our progress; they help drive our collective success.
Health & Wellness: Up to 100% employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their dependents , along with comprehensive wellness benefits and healthcare concierge services designed to support your needs beyond traditional insurance.
Financial Well-being: A comprehensive suite of financial benefits, including a 401(k) plan , company-paid life and disability insurance , tax-advantaged spending accounts , and a range of discounted voluntary offerings to help you customize and strengthen your overall financial position.
Family Support: Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave (after six months of employment), along with a robust suite of family-support resources. Employees also receive access to Kindbody fertility and family-building benefits and dedicated leave specialists who help guide you through the entire process.
Growth & Development: Generous annual stipends for both professional and personal development, empowering you to invest in your continued growth. You’ll also have access to a wide range of internal learning opportunities, ensuring you can build new skills, deepen your expertise, and advance your career with confidence.
Time Off & Flexibility: We believe that to do your best work, you should get the time you need for rest, rejuvenation and recovery. Drata offers a flexible vacation policy, paid holidays, and other perks to recharge.

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